Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

Dr. Chevallet Jean-Pierre was born in 1963. After studies in Grenoble, he received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Grenoble University France (U. Joseph Fourier), the M.Sc. by Research at Grenoble Polytechnic Institute, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 1992 from Grenoble University. He is Associate Professor at the Grenoble University (U. Pierre Mendès-France) since 1993. Since September 2003, he is in CNRS as Director of IPAL CNRS Mixed International Unit between I2R, and NUS based in Singapore.

His research interests are in Information Retrieval, including Natural Language Processing for Information indexing and Retrieval, multilingual document indexing, logical model of Information Retrieval, structured document indexing and multi-media indexing and retrieval.

He has co-directed 7 PhD thesis and numerous master and master by research. One of his students (Dr Ho) is the first researcher in University of Ho Chi Min to work with a French Phd in Computer Science. He also develops with him the first Information Retrieval system using Natural Language parsing in Vietnamese. He is the co-author of the Best Student Paper awarded in IEEE Intl. Conf. on Multimedia & Expo 2006, with his PhD Student. He obtains the first position if text indexing with medical multimedia collection of CLEF initiative in 2005 and 2006. 

He set up in 2006-07 the new definition of the IPAL lab, and directed on of the first ICT Asia project (ISERE 2005-06). He is co-directing the current MOSAIC project, and local GRASP-IT Merlion project. He is the author of the IOTA and X-IOTA retrieval system and co-author of the Snpa2Tell system.He has participated to several European projects and working group, to major Information Retrieval competitions including TREC, AMARYLLIS, and CLEF. 

He is the co-founder of the French Association and Conference for Information Retrieval (ARIA and CORIA) and also reviewer in several top IR international conferences. Dr Chevallet has contributed himself to more than 70 conference, book chapters and journal papers on the field of Information Retrieval.

He was co-responsible in 2003 of the PRISM- IMAG project to set up a Multilingual Web based Information Retrieval System using a pivot language. He also participated in 2003 to a RNRT project THEOREME, in charge with terminology automatic extraction from audio transcription extracted from video by LIMSI. This project was financed by Industry French Ministry with, VECSYS and SECODIP society, and CNRS LIMSI laboratory from Paris University. He was responsible in 2001 of the Information Retrieval part of the READ-LEAF project, supported by the French Ministry and the SOFTISSIMO company specialized in automatic translation for the French Web search Engine “Voila”.Before 2000, he participated to the European Project TIPS (Tools for Innovative Publishing in Science) Project IST-1999-10419, the European project BRA FERMI N°8134 about logic modeling for Information Retrieval and to the European Working group MIRA and MIRO about the user role in an Information Retrieval System and user interface. He participated also to all the of AMARYLLIS campaign from AUPELF. This campaign was dealing with the comparison of French search engine and terminology extraction.